I don’t know about you folks, but with so much new music arriving every week, I often put older releases on the shelf and forget about them, until lo and behold there’s an anniversary piece about how it’s now X years old. So I thought I’d start a thread asking what relatively recent (ten years old or less) albums are you either still listening to, or have recently rediscovered? I’ll start off by mentioning the Tim Hecker/Dan Lopatin collaborative album “Instrumental Tourist”, which I think captures these two artists at a good time in both their careers, and still holds up well in 2018. So, what’s in your pile of recents?

LV ft Joshua Idehen’s Routes again and divorced from its moment, I really find it’s a beautiful record. In the exact opposite way, Darkstar’s North is a very bleak one but equally engaging.

Actually, I remember the whole “dubstep albums are rubbish” consensus from back then and always thought that was painfully shortsighted. A lot of good home listening stuff that avoided falling into “chill”.

Boards of Canada- Tomorrow’s Harvest
Still think this record is amazing. In fact it might have grown to be my favourite of theirs. Reach For The Dead still catches me every time, I think it’s perfect.

FKA Twigs- LP1 (and all the EPs actually)
Still in heavy rotation, probably because we’ve been waiting for a followup ever since. I still feel like the more time I spend with this, the more I like it. Deserves all the hype it got on release (even though I actually didn’t see what all the fuss was about at the time, it’s grown on me an unbelievable amount)

2 obvious choices perhaps, and unlikely to be records that people have forgotten… but they are great.

Oh yes! I remember hearing it on the Mary Ann Hobbs show back in the day. Loved that song. Turned out to be a one hit wonder though. While on the topic of Mary Ann Hobbs, I remember hearing this for the first time back then as well, completely blown away. That EP, goddamn, and this track in particular. Listened to it all that summer.